Last Updated: May 2026
November arrived and with it the annual migration south. After nearly a month in Nappanee, Indiana — three weeks of warranty work, train horns, 5am warehouse traffic, and one unexpectedly lovely stint at a lakeside resort — it was time to point the motorhome toward warmer latitudes. This year’s winter plan: Texas first, then Arizona. The route south took us through St. Louis, across the Oklahoma plains, and finally into the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where we settled in at Grapevine, Texas for an extended stay before continuing west.
The drive south through the fall Midwest was its own reward. The leaves had peaked while we were in Indiana, and the landscape was doing that late-October thing where everything is gold and amber and the light goes low and long by 4pm. After the intensity of the New England circuit and the industrial weeks in Nappanee, the open road felt like a deep breath. Canadian geese were moving south ahead of us on the same general schedule. We felt a kinship.
